Saas

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Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now

03 Dec 2021 02:20 | 3

Software

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning

01 Dec 2021 05:58 |

SaaS

Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds

Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit

28 Jul 2021 17:30 | 1

SaaS

'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls

Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills

27 Jul 2021 13:54 | 32

PaaS + IaaS

IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud

Big buyers understand infrastructure economics – and aren’t afraid to screw down providers' prices

21 May 2021 01:37 |

SaaS

Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise

Once again, the cloud makes it rain

22 Apr 2021 17:00 | 7

SaaS

State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns

Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon

09 Mar 2021 16:36 | 14

Software

UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software

Software subscriptions and licence support a must for bidding businesses

16 Nov 2020 13:00 |

Security

What does Workday think gives it the edge in COVID crisis? 'We're not an ERP vendor,' says CEO Bhusri

Firm not the only SaaS-y outfit to enjoy bumper results during pandemic

28 Aug 2020 15:10 |

SaaS

Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined

$233bn revenue in 2019, says IDC, with the top five creaming a third of it

19 Aug 2020 06:28 | 10

On-Prem

UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table

Can't go worse than that time it bought 2.3 million Oracle licences. Right?

16 Jul 2020 08:30 | 3

SaaS

CIOs will force SaaS vendors to limber up and get more flexible about contracts in the post-pandemic world

No more paying for non-existent employees, users, page views, or transactions, says Forrester

30 Jun 2020 08:03 | 7

Software

Uber turns SaaS vendor with deal that bakes public transport authority into its app

Given the scoundrels in the world of software, could Uber be worse?

18 Jun 2020 07:28 | 2

Software

SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable

It built a perfectly good analytics cloud yet has added a Microsoft spreadsheet plugin because that’s what punters want

19 May 2020 07:52 | 76

Software

Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce

Coming real soon now as-a-service. Details on data collection and price? Coming soon, promise

05 May 2020 02:06 | 3

SaaS

Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system

Project 'SOP2SaaS'... it just rolls off the tongue

03 Apr 2020 13:07 | 6

Security

It has been 15 years, and we're still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit

More than a dozen dodgy websites spotted masquerading as the real deal, HTTPS certs and all

04 Mar 2020 14:00 | 35

SaaS

Sage still waiting for cloudy investments to make it rain as operating profit tumbles 10.5%

Revenue growth lags as biz makes subscription transition

20 Nov 2019 15:22 | 6

SaaS

We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours

It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early

20 Sep 2019 20:18 | 6

SaaS

Late with your financial paperwork? Here's a handy excuse: Malware smacked your bean-counter cloud offline

Accountancy SaaS CCH falls over, thanks to nasty infection

08 May 2019 06:07 | 21

Security

White-listing Azure cloud connections to grease your Office 365 wheels? About that...

Dev fears sub-domain abuse – Plus, unofficial patches for trio of Windows zero-days

23 Jan 2019 08:53 | 8

Software

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

'Ecncouraging' numbers as it switches from licensing to subs push

17 Jan 2019 13:11 | 4

Storage

Cohesity's Helios tool tells you when your cluster's in a fluster

SaaS kit compares users' setups to reveal best practices

23 Aug 2018 14:11 |

SaaS

Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors

10 Jul 2018 18:50 | 11

Software

Microsoft slows Dynamics 365 update cadence

Twice-annual tweaks is slower than Salesforce and Oracle, faster than other SaaS rivals

09 Jul 2018 01:18 | 3

SaaS

Oracle says migrating on-prem ERP to cloud now easier than upgrade

Reveals cloud servers have CPU just for security, migration times cut to five months. Maybe

07 Jun 2018 03:03 | 10

Security

SaaSy HR outfit PageUp reports ‘unauthorised activity’ and data breach

Supermarket chain warns job-seekers from last 18 months. Bank, telco also worry

06 Jun 2018 01:17 | 2

On-Prem

Cisco board adds SaaS-man to help it suss subscriptions

Former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett also sits on board of subs-happy Pure Storage

13 Apr 2018 01:58 |

Exclusive Updated

SAP Anywhere is gonna be absolutely nowhere: We're 'sunsetting' this service, biz tells punters

Have a refund... if you agree not to sue

27 Mar 2018 06:01 | 29

Devops

Cloudflare pushes Workers out the door – without layoffs

Runs JavaScript on the edge, rather than make users schlep all the way to your server

14 Mar 2018 08:02 | 1

Software

Want cheaper analytics? Snub SaaS: Ye olde ELAs might do the job

And don't forget to negotiate when vendors are most desperate for cash

27 Feb 2018 08:29 | 4

Networks

Citrix swallows Cedexis to give NetScaler more multi-cloud cred

Nobody wants slow SaaS or cross-cloud comms, but Citrix wants you to cough up to stop it

14 Feb 2018 03:58 |

SaaS

You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

How'd data leave country? Yep, control-V'd into a rando app the user set up

05 Feb 2018 10:05 | 52

On-Prem

Measure us by subscriptions, says upbeat Citrix

Says cloud plan is working better than expected but predicts very modest growth

01 Feb 2018 05:31 | 1

Devops

Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly

Is it a game-changer? Definitely

23 Jan 2018 09:24 | 113

Software

ServiceNow unleashes its 'Kingston' release

Company's journey from the heart of IT to the rest of the business continues

16 Jan 2018 08:04 | 7

Virtualization

VMware begins new vSphere beta, but not for a big bang upgrade

Virtzilla's turning the continuous integration crank for vSphere on AWS

25 Oct 2017 01:00 |

AI + ML

AI might outsmart ITIL, make MTBF moot, says ServiceNow strategist

What if you log an incident that AI helped you to avoid? PLUS: Kingston release details

24 Oct 2017 07:30 | 13

On-Prem

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

Loafing competitors are 'horrible,' says Benioff

23 Aug 2017 00:02 | 19

Software

Major Oracle E-business suite upgrade coming in 2019. Or maybe 2020

If you can't wait, Big Red says its new SaaS apps will behave just like software modules

09 Aug 2017 07:02 | 4

Comment

You can't DevOps everything, kids. Off the shelf kit especially

Waterfalling for the, er, 'boring' stuff

21 Jul 2017 08:34 | 17

On-Prem

ServiceNow stops over in Jakarta on its journey to AI-land

SaaS-y business process simplifier adds security chat rooms, cloud management and more to new release

21 Jul 2017 02:04 |

Security

Cybereason snags $100m from Softbank to mount distribution, tech offensive

'This deal is the coming of age of the offensive security model'

21 Jun 2017 17:59 | 3

SaaS

Cloud bigger than ever, biz suddenly keen to fork out for security. Put 'em together...

Let's just say cloud security on the up - Gartner

15 Jun 2017 14:30 |

Software

IBM's ShinyHappy™ SAP Ariba deal papers over SaaS fail

Emptoris procurement product is being taken behind the shed just five years after acquisition

23 May 2017 07:02 | 16

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Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds

'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls

IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud

Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise

State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns

UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software

Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak

VMware drops hints that ESXi on Arm is about to become a proper product

Oracle customers caught in the cross-hairs of Larry’s 'interesting dynamic'

What does Workday think gives it the edge in COVID crisis? 'We're not an ERP vendor,' says CEO Bhusri

Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined

UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table

CIOs will force SaaS vendors to limber up and get more flexible about contracts in the post-pandemic world

Uber turns SaaS vendor with deal that bakes public transport authority into its app

SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable

Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce

Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system

It has been 15 years, and we're still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit

Sage still waiting for cloudy investments to make it rain as operating profit tumbles 10.5%

We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours

Late with your financial paperwork? Here's a handy excuse: Malware smacked your bean-counter cloud offline

White-listing Azure cloud connections to grease your Office 365 wheels? About that...

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

Cohesity's Helios tool tells you when your cluster's in a fluster

Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs

Microsoft slows Dynamics 365 update cadence

Oracle says migrating on-prem ERP to cloud now easier than upgrade

SaaSy HR outfit PageUp reports ‘unauthorised activity’ and data breach

Cisco board adds SaaS-man to help it suss subscriptions

SAP Anywhere is gonna be absolutely nowhere: We're 'sunsetting' this service, biz tells punters

Cloudflare pushes Workers out the door – without layoffs

Want cheaper analytics? Snub SaaS: Ye olde ELAs might do the job

Citrix swallows Cedexis to give NetScaler more multi-cloud cred

You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

Measure us by subscriptions, says upbeat Citrix

Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly

ServiceNow unleashes its 'Kingston' release

VMware begins new vSphere beta, but not for a big bang upgrade

AI might outsmart ITIL, make MTBF moot, says ServiceNow strategist

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

Major Oracle E-business suite upgrade coming in 2019. Or maybe 2020

You can't DevOps everything, kids. Off the shelf kit especially

ServiceNow stops over in Jakarta on its journey to AI-land

Cybereason snags $100m from Softbank to mount distribution, tech offensive

Cloud bigger than ever, biz suddenly keen to fork out for security. Put 'em together...

IBM's ShinyHappy™ SAP Ariba deal papers over SaaS fail

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